Monday, January 09, 2012

drag2share: WOW: Samsung Beat Apple To A Voice Controlled TV

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-ces-keynote-2012-1


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LAS VEGAS -- Samsung just unveiled its new Smart TV strategy at its Consumer Electronics keynote this afternoon. 

The new models, called the ES 8000, have built-in voice control, motion control, apps, and streaming services.

We also got a look at the company's new line of super thin Series 9 and Series 5 laptops.

Read below for our live blog of the event.

All quotes paraphrased unless in quotation marks.


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Posted by Augustine at 6:33 PM

drag2share: BenQ shipping 1080p 3D W7000 projector in Q1 2012 for $4,000

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/benq-shipping-1080p-3d-w7000-projector-release-date-price/

No one ever said that 3D would come cheaply, and even BenQ seems to be tacking quite the premium onto its fancy W7000. It's being hailed as the company's first 1080p HD home cinema projector, touting 2,000 lumens of brightness, a 50,000:1 contrast ratio, frame interpolation and support for all HDMI 1.4a 3D signal formats. It's also compliant to the native Rec. 709 color gamut, one of the highest HD video standards for professional-grade home projectors. For certification junkies, there's also an ISFccc badge, and the H+V lens shift technology provides up to 125 percent vertical and 40 percent horizontal lens shift adjustment with zero vertical offset. Interested consumers can pick one up later this quarter in North America for $3,999; catch the full press release after the break.

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Posted by Augustine at 11:46 AM

drag2share: Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD brings no noise, brings the pain(less) operation

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/elgato-thunderbolt-ssd/

Elgato's decided to go back to its FireWire-roots with two new high capacity Thunderbolt-totin' SSDs. The 5.2 x 3.3-inch drives have a transfer speed of 270MB/s, drawing power from the port and promising silent operation for when you need to access data during those quiet winter nights. It's available next month: the 120GB edition costing you $420, the 240GB edition topping out at a pricier $700 and we've got a (thunder)bolt load of more information for you after the break.

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Posted by Augustine at 11:46 AM

drag2share: Le Pan rolls out a trio of Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich tablets for penny pinchers

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/le-pan-rolls-out-a-trio-of-honeycomb-ice-cream-sandwich-tablets/

Ice Cream Sandwich on a budget? That's what Le Pan is promising at CES today, with a trio of new tablets. The higher end of the two is the Le Pan III, an Android 4.0-laced slate that's powered by a 1.5GHz, dual-core TI-OMAP 4460 processor, with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. This Bluetooth 4.0-enabled device also comes with a five-megapixel rear camera and a two-megapixel front-facing shooter, and supports 1080p video output. Joining the Le Pan II is the TC978, which features just about the same specs, save for a slightly lower octane (1GHz) processor, and the lack of a five-megapixel camera. The Le Pan II, meanwhile, ships with Android 3.2 Honeycomb rather than Ice Cream Sandwich, but can make the jump to 4.0 with a simple upgrade. The device features a 9.7-inch display at 1024 x 768 resolution and is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, but the rest of its specs are just about identical to those of the TC978. No word yet on when the Le Pan III and TC978 will hit the market, but the Le Pan II is already available on Amazon for $300. You can grab it now at the link below, or head past the break for a spoonful of PR.

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Posted by Augustine at 11:45 AM

drag2share: Meet LG's Ultra Definition (Yep!) 84-Inch Monster TV [Televisions]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5873849/meet-lgs-ultra-definition-yep-84+inch-monster-tv

Meet LG's Ultra Definition (Yep!) 84-Inch Monster TVHDTV is cool, I guess, but it's going to be hard to go back after looking at LG's ultra-def 4k display, which packs four times the pixels as a 1080p set. It's mind-bogglingly crisp and enormously... enormous. Second mortgage time!

Available this July (at 84, 60, and 72 inches) for what's sure to be a startling amount, the 3480 x 2160 ultra-def LM9600 beasts will come with all the nice bullet points as the lesser LCD sets: 3D, dual-core picture processing, and motion-controlled "smart TV" apps—plus voice recognition. This starship of a TV can only do so much on paper, so we're eager to put our retinas on it as soon as we can. Still, it's enough to take some of that mythical luster off the Apple TV. Eight million pixels plus voice control. Think about it.

Just don't get too excited: remember, there's nothing out there that you can actually watch at that resolution. Yet.

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